60NYT > Colson Whiteheadtopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/colson_whitehead/index.html?rss=1News about Colson Whitehead, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usTue 31 Mar 2015 18:59:22 -0400http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comFive-Card Studshttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/books/review/the-noble-hustle-and-fading-hearts-on-the-river.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/books/review/the-noble-hustle-and-fading-hearts-on-the-river.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/06/01/books/review/01KIRBY/01KIRBY-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>In their new memoirs, Colson Whitehead and Brooks Haxton use poker to expand our sense of how human beings work.By DAVID KIRBYSun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/books/review/the-noble-hustle-and-fading-hearts-on-the-river.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssSurviving at the Poker Tables: Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Noble Hustle'http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/surviving-at-the-poker-tables-colson-whitehead-talks-about-the-noble-hustle/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/surviving-at-the-poker-tables-colson-whitehead-talks-about-the-noble-hustle/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/05/29/books/29noble/29noble-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Mr. Whitehead’s new memoir is about his participation in the World Series of Poker.By JOHN WILLIAMSThu, 29 May 2014 14:30:00 -0400http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/surviving-at-the-poker-tables-colson-whitehead-talks-about-the-noble-hustle/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssColson Whitehead: By the Bookhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/colson-whitehead-by-the-book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/colson-whitehead-by-the-book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/05/18/books/review/0518-bks-BTB/0518-bks-BTB-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>The author of “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death” would like to host Flannery O’Connor, “because I don’t think she knew a lot of black people, or got out of the house that much.”Sun, 18 May 2014 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/colson-whitehead-by-the-book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA Poker-Faced Nihilist, Stoically Slumminghttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/books/the-noble-hustle-by-colson-whitehead.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/books/the-noble-hustle-by-colson-whitehead.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/05/09/arts/09JPBOOKWHITEHEAD/09JPBOOKWHITEHEAD-thumbStandard-v2.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Colson Whitehead&#8217;s new memoir, &#8220;The Noble Hustle,&#8221; recounts his adventures at the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.By DWIGHT GARNERFri, 09 May 2014 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/books/the-noble-hustle-by-colson-whitehead.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe Writer's Roomhttp://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/the-writers-room/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/the-writers-room/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/02/16/t-magazine/16womens-well-writers-slide-LANH/16womens-well-writers-slide-LANH-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Upstairs, downstairs, in a corner, at a desk, on the bed, with a view of trees, water, the street, the sky. Five writers, who all publish new books this year, explain how the right space can unlock the mind and let the words flow.By T MAGAZINEFri, 14 Feb 2014 12:37:13 -0500http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/the-writers-room/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssZombiegate!http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/zombiegate/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWe asked Glen Duncan if he wanted to clarify his review of Colson Whitehead's novel "Zone One" or reply to his critics.By THE NEW YORK TIMESThu, 17 Nov 2011 12:17:28 -0500http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/zombiegate/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssInside the Listhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/inside-the-list.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/inside-the-list.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/11/06/books/review/06insidelist/06insidelist-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>What does Colson Whitehead, whose zombie novel “Zone One” hits this week’s fiction list, have against Connecticut?By JENNIFER SCHUESSLERSun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/inside-the-list.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA Plague of Urban Undead in Lower Manhattanhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/zone-one-by-colson-whitehead-book-review.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/zone-one-by-colson-whitehead-book-review.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/10/30/books/review/Duncan/Duncan-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>In Colson Whitehead’s novel, humans spared the effects of a plague battle zombies in Lower Manhattan.By GLEN DUNCANSun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/zone-one-by-colson-whitehead-book-review.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssVisible Young Manhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/review/Toure-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/review/Toure-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/05/03/books/cover-75.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>The well-off 15-year-old black hero of Colson Whitehead’s memoiristic fourth novel lives in a world where life doesn’t assault him but rather affords him the time to figure out who he wants to be.By TOURÉSun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/review/Toure-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssComing of Age in Sag Harbor Amid Privilege and Paradoxhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/books/28cols.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/books/28cols.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/04/27/arts/colson75.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>“Sag Harbor” is set not in the moneyed, Hamptonish part of town but in the mostly African-American section of Azurest, where Colson Whitehead’s family has summered since the 1940s.By CHARLES McGRATHTue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/books/28cols.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss